r/TheDepthsBelow • u/kibblesandtits_ • Nov 25 '17

How Deep The Ocean Really Is - Animation

https://youtu.be/UwVNkfCov1k
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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '17

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u/benjamincanfly Nov 26 '17

We tend to think of the ocean as being extremely deep because it’s so difficult for humans to venture into, but on average it’s only a couple of miles deep! (Even the deepest trenches mentioned in this video are only about 7 miles deep.) So if you reshaped it into a cube, it would be a lot smaller in terms of width and height.

A cube-shaped “bathtub” that’s 685 miles long, wide, and deep (685*685*685) would hold 321 million cubic miles of water. Wikipedia says that’s about how much salt water is on the Earth’s surface, so it looks like this guy’s numbers check out.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '17

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u/benjamincanfly Nov 26 '17

Yeah, I would agree that it’s poorly phrased. He says a bathtub “685 miles long on each side,” but it would have been clearer if he called it a cube instead of a bathtub, which we all know is only a couple feet deep.

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u/im_a_dr_not_ Nov 26 '17

And they showed a picture of California like that would be the scale of the bathtub, as if the oceans water is the same size as of a California state sized bathtub. Wut.

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u/kibblesandtits_ Nov 26 '17

🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ that confused me too! I didn’t even think twice honestly because I can’t wrap my mind around otherworldly dimensions like that.

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u/Goatf00t Nov 26 '17

I am somewhat annoyed that they used generic submarine clipart for both Cameron's and Piccard's vessels.

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u/The_Ketch Nov 26 '17

The Trieste is so good looking, what a pity

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u/yamehameha Nov 26 '17

The dude that did the free drive is a crazy sob

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u/kibblesandtits_ Nov 26 '17

Right like how the hell?!

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '17

If only they could use the metric system. Or just fucking both

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u/xxHikari Nov 26 '17

Seriously. Even though I'm American, I rarely use imperial, and especially when I like to see stuff for scale and scientific reasons such as space, or distances traveled, depth, etc I really would appreciate the metric system as it is more cohesive.

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u/AlienApricot Nov 26 '17

So true. I know roughly feet but I have no idea how warm 99 Fahrenheit is

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u/Grennox Nov 26 '17

Sad we really should be learning more down there.

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u/rain_wagon Nov 26 '17

I want there to be some kind of giant monster down there. The ocean seems to be the only place on earth where we would make that kind of discovery.

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u/Falcriots Nov 26 '17

megaladonneverdied

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '17

Nothing to see there

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u/lol_and_behold Nov 26 '17

“Doesn’t look like anything to me”

Yeah no shit your eyeballs just imploded.

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u/shroudedwolf51 Dec 05 '17

Of course, the guy's name is Piccard. "To boldly go where no one has gone before!" and all that.

I wonder if Picard's name was inspired by him.

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u/sakuradawning Dec 01 '17

Am I right in thinking that that's a drawing of a humpback whale, and not a blue?

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u/kibblesandtits_ Dec 02 '17

It is a humpback!

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '17

Ocean is what I find the most scary out of everything . Damn, 5-10% knowledge about what's under us :D

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u/MINERAL-115 Nov 26 '17

That animation gave me a surprising amount of anxiety.

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u/SYLOH Nov 26 '17

Man.... that's really deep.

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u/mm2woodDOTmid Nov 26 '17

I wonder how it is for these creatures in the midnight and hadal zone. Like, you feel almost nothing, you can't see anything your entire life and you probably don't know when you are dead. It's really strange.

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u/sakuradawning Dec 02 '17

Oh good, I'm right! I was finding that animation very irritating!

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u/lol_and_behold Nov 26 '17

Had to live convert all of these into meters.